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Her Majesty's Wizard |
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Rating: Summary: One of the best! Review: This is the book that started me reading fantasy and it is still one of my favorites. I've read it dozens of times and keep coming back for more! If you are looking for something just a little out of the norm and you love good fantasy, then you have to try this book
Rating: Summary: Rock! Review: This story along with Phyllis Eisenstein's are some of my older favorites. I can't remember how I found this book but I am SO pleased that I did. (I guess you find a lot of the lesser knowns when you work in a bookstore for two years) If you haven't read this or Phyllis Eisenstein's "The Crystal Palace" or "Sorcerer's Son", please do.
Rating: Summary: Awesome Book Review: This was an Awesome book, there is an amazing mix of the modern-day thought and the medival thought, as well as a blend of the two different lands. This book is really religious though, and i wouild not recomend it if you cannot look past the religion in it to see the story. it is an arcahic form of catholism though so i donot find anythign offensive about it. I would highly recomend this book , though beware you will not be able to put it down, and you will learn something of poetry and physics. The lessons taught are cleverly hidden but they are taught none-the-less.
Rating: Summary: a very Catholic book Review: What an enjoyable book! I really like the fact that Stasheff dealt with religion in his medieval world. It makes sense, because the Catholic church was a main part of people's lives in the middle ages. The world, an alternate universe, is very interesting. Oaths CANNOT be broken. People aren't knighted because they are great fighters- they get martial skills as soon as they are knighted. Sins, even little ones, actually matter. Matt, the hero, has to go to confession before he can effectively fight on the good side. If he is not shriven, he is a liability to his team. Matt is a rhyming wizard. His application of rhymes is very creative. My favorite rhyme was when he works backwards from Richard III to help an embittered ogre. As Richard grows younger and less evil, the ogre grows less angry and ugly. Sometimes Matt makes up his own verse- and very crummy verse, at that. The side characters are just that- side characters. The princess Alisande, especially, doesn't have much personality. After reading the Warlock books, in which the hero's wife and children are such individuals, I was a bit disappointed in the flat sidekicks. But the interesting universe and rhymes make up for it. Don't go looking for any great romantic scenes, though! The adventure is the main point in this book.
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